1. Add the visual to your report

In Power BI Desktop, go to the Visualizations pane → click the three dots → Get more visuals → search for KPI Card Pro.

2. Add a measure to Value

That alone renders a card with the number, in the format your model gives the measure.

3. Follow the setup guide

While you edit, a small panel inside the visual lists the optional fields — Prior period, Target, Trend, Small multiples — ticks each one as you add it, and then lets you pick a style template with one click. Close it with ✕ or Finish; reopen it from Format → Style template → Setup guide. It never appears in reading view.

Every figure — value, prior, target, variance, secondary KPIs, tooltips — uses the format string of its own measure and the language of the report: currency, percentage, thousands separator, decimal mark. A measure formatted as 0.00% holding 0.3 is shown as 30.00%.

• Display units scale on top of that format: Auto picks K, M or bn, or force one. A percentage is never scaled.
• Decimal places applies only once you change it; until then the decimals come from the measure.
• A measure with a dynamic format string is shown with the format Power BI sends for each value.
• Prefix and Suffix (Pro) add free text. Never add “%” to a raw ratio — format the measure as a percentage.

Color rules give each card one of three states — on track, warning, off track — with your own thresholds and colours. They are the card's conditional formatting: Power BI's fx button is not available to visuals that read data as a matrix, which this one does to combine Small Multiples and Trend.

• Compare value with: the Target (% achieved), the Prior period (% of prior), or the Value itself, with thresholds in the value's own units.
• With the default thresholds of 90 and 100: 100 or more is on track, 90 to 100 warning, below 90 off track. Lower is better mirrors it for costs, defects or churn.
• Apply color to: the value, an accent bar, both, the card background (a light tint, so the text stays readable) or the card border.
• Show status text writes the state under the value — “● On track · 103.1% of target” — so the meaning never depends on colour alone. Screen readers announce it too.

With a date in Trend, Value & comparison → Value shows chooses what the big number is:

• Total of the period — the whole range (default).
• Latest point — the last point, compared with the one Compare against (points back) earlier: 1 for the previous month on a monthly series, 12 for the same month last year.
• Last N points — the sum of the last N points against the N before: N = 12 on a monthly series is the rolling year.

Show period label prints what is compared, for example “Dec 2025 vs Nov 2025”. A Prior Period measure you bind yourself always wins.

Up to three supporting measures with their own variance. Right puts them in a column beside the value, Bottom below it (in a row when they fit, otherwise a list), Auto chooses by width. In small multiples every card uses the same layout, so they stay comparable.

Format → Style template: Classic, Clean, Bold, Minimal, Soft and Midnight. A template only fills what you have not set yourself — any colour or size you change wins. Templates are free and change colours, fonts and the size of the number; the Pro card styling (border width, radius, padding, shadow) is not part of them. On dark cards the variance colours lighten automatically to stay readable.

• With Small Multiples, click a card to filter the rest of the page by its category. The others dim.
• With a Trend, click a point of the line to filter by that period — and by the card, in small multiples: March of Spain, not March of everyone. Selected points are marked with a ring.
• Ctrl+click adds to the selection; click again to remove; click empty space to clear.
• Bookmarks restore the selection; Edit interactions is respected; right-click opens the Power BI context menu.
• A single card with no Trend has nothing to filter by, like Power BI's own card.

• The main number shrinks to fit instead of being cut off. In a grid, all cards share the size of the one that needs it most.
• Small Multiples Columns is a maximum: when the cards would be narrower than about 150 px, fewer columns are used.
• When a single card is too short, the extras are withdrawn in this order: trend, prior/target line, secondary KPIs, status text, variance and label. The number always stays.

Settings that need a licence carry (Pro) in their name. In format mode you can also click the number, the label, the variance, the trend line or the card itself to format it right there.

• Style template — template, setup guide.
• Card — background, border colour; (Pro) border width, radius, padding, drop shadow.
• Main Value — font, size, bold, colour, display units, decimal places; (Pro) prefix and suffix.
• Label — show, font, size, bold, colour.
• Variance — show, invert (lower is better), arrow, size; (Pro) colours and pill.
• Color rules (Pro) — compare with, thresholds, lower is better, three colours, apply to, status text.
• Prior & Target, Value & comparison, Secondary KPIs (Pro), Image, Trend (Pro), Small Multiples (Pro), Accessibility.

The Format pane, the setup guide and the messages of the visual follow the language of Power BI: English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese (Brazil and Portugal), Dutch, Polish, Japanese, Simplified Chinese and Korean.

• Screen readers hear each card in full: name and value, period, variance against the prior, target and status.
• Keyboard: Tab reaches the cards; arrow keys, Home and End move between them; Enter or Space selects.
• The trend line is a slider: arrow keys move from point to point and each one is announced (“Sep: 1.39K”); Enter filters by it.
• High contrast: system colours replace the palette and every state is also written as text.

Free — a complete card: value, prior-period variance with arrow and invert, target; your model's formats, display units and decimals; label and card colours; images; style templates; the setup guide; the size-adaptive layout; tooltips; cross-highlighting, bookmarks, keyboard, screen-reader summaries and high contrast; format on the canvas.

Pro — color rules; the trend line with its target, hover values, clickable points and period comparisons; Small Multiples (up to 50 cards, 1 to 6 columns); Secondary KPIs; prefix and suffix; variance pill and colours; extra tooltip measures; card border width, radius, padding and shadow.

See it before you buy. While you edit without a licence, every Pro feature you turn on is drawn working under a “Pro preview” watermark naming it. Reading view shows the free result. Pro comes with a 30-day free trial on AppSource.